Many thanks to Debbie Hanson for sending these photographs of an unusual item with a mystery use.
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Below – 1938 – Shanks catalogue. There is no exact match in the catalogue to the design of the item on this page but a foot bath is looking a good possibility. (I have a 1951 Shanks catalogue and that too does not have the design being discussed here).
Many thanks to Chris Hawksworth for the following information. I am not in possession of this example. This white enamelled fire clay sink was rescued from a lab at Glasgow University when it was thrown out during a refurbishment. It is stamped Steele Bros with additional hand-scribed marks which may say 16.2.77 (Date of manufacture…
(Note – SBH – I am not convinced this company actually manufactured fireclay goods. They may have been sanitary engineers and merchants. to be clarified). 1886 – William B Morrison, fire brick maker and manufacturer of fire clay goods, 400 Eglinton Street, Glasgow. 04/09/1888 – North British Daily – International Exhibition, William B Morrison, sanitary…
The company was formed and held mineral leases, including fireclay at Stand and Raebog, New Monkland and at Shotts, Lanarkshire and Fauldhouse, West Lothian. It was owned by Shanks of Barrhead. 10/04/1937 – The Scotsman – The Stand Fireclay Company ( Ltd . ), Victorian Pottery, Barrhead. Private company to carry on the business of…
The following photograph was taken by Andy Arthur in the gents loos, Bow Bar, West Bow, Edinburgh. The mark is stamped on a cistern. Steele Bros & Sons Ltd, Niddrie Fire Clay Works, Portobello. . . . .
Found By Tucker Kennedy on the Ayrshire coast. William B Morrison, fire brick maker and manufacturer of fire clay goods, 400 Eglinton Street, Glasgow. . . . . Below – The same stamp on a sink photographed by Robert Reid in the Ayrshire area. . . .
Found by David McGarrigle in Paisley Knock Patent no. 270605, Robert Brown & Son Ltd Paisley A broken section of sanitary ware Robert Brown & Son, Ferguslie Fireclay Works and Caledonian Brick and Tile Works, Paisley. . . 08/10/1987 – The Glasgow Herald – The missing link in Paisley’s toilet chain. Re toilets, it was interesting,…
John Shanks – “The sun never sets on the name Shanks.” Around 1850, a contract to install a bell and clock in the Bourock Church tower in Barrhead was given to the joiner Abraham Bodys. He sub-let the plumber and sheet metal contract to a young Paisley plumber named John Shanks. This appears to have…
The National Museum, Edinburgh are in possession of this broken sanitary ware bearing the following Scottish trademark – Buick Alloa Scotland Buicks, Hilton Fireclay Works, Alloa . .
The National Museum, Edinburgh are in possession of this broken sanitary ware bearing the following Scottish trademark – Shanks and Co. Ltd, Barrhead, Scotland . . . Below – and this same mark but in a different style – Kingston upon Thames. .
The National Museum, Edinburgh are in possession of this broken sanitary ware bearing the following Scottish trademark – Avon, Wm.B. Morrison & Son, Glasgow. William B Morrison, fire brick maker and manufacturer of fire clay goods, 400 Eglinton Street, Glasgow. . . . .
